After reading the whitepaper I'm going to go ahead and call it a scam (not that in 7 pages anyone seem to care if this project could even work, people just seem to just blindly trust the project showing exactly what's wrong with ICOs).
Dear Bathrobehero.
Did you try our service at Playkey.net ? We have thousands of customers in Europe and CIS countries, so it is definitely
NOT SCAM.
First off, you can't possibly run already existing games in a decentralized manner. Running interactive games is not just 3D rendering, the game has to practically fully run on the "mining" machine including resources like CPU/RAM/storage.
Yes, you right. We have more requirements for miners, like CPU, RAM, HDD, Network. But if you want to earn more money, you can upgrade your farm and work with us.
And you can't run the majority of games multiple time (online DRM, 1 account/instance) so multiple miners running the same game for one player is impossible.
We have a technology with isolated gaming sessions between each other.
so multiple miners running the same game for one player is impossible.
You right, we stream only from one miner.
So it's already centralized in a sense that 1 miner = 1 player. And if that miner has issues the player will lose progress. The gamer would also want to play games on his account which would be hard to hide from the miner who would be running the game introducing security issues.
You right, that decentralized Playkey have security tasks, that is why we use blockchain technology for our project. Miner will lose money if he will have security problem, it is the same as for Playkey miner.
Streaming like Nvidia Shield or Steam Link works because they do so locally. The Nvidia shield for example requires "50 Megabits per second – Recommended for 1080p 60 FPS quality" (source) which is easy to get on your local WiFi which probably has 70-100 Mbps speeds. Now players would need 50Mbps internet connection and miners would require 50Mbps per game they "mine". You could say 720p 30fps is enough but even old hardware can achieve that without latency and having to pay for it. And don't even dream about 4k...
Nvidia our competitor in this, so it proved that this technology is a future for gaming. Yes, miner need a good internet connection, we have Terabits/s connection for our mining rigs.
Try our service at Playkey.net for free on Demo, I hope you will be excited.
The whitepaper also says such delusions as mining would be
• 2-3 times more efficient than any altcoin mining add opportunities;
• More stable in the short, medium and long term than cryptocurrency mining;
Which is just nonsense they can't possibly know.
Our current service Playkey.net more than 5 times efficient than simple Etherium mining for example
We can't say about future, but if you ask me this question 2 years ago, I will answer the same and I will be right.
And even if the impossible could be done and more computers could collectively stream the same game in a decentralized manner for 1 person playing, one miner having a lagspike or any short issue would surely create visual glitches and redundancy would make the cost unfeasible. But again, you can't render current games in real time without the whole game running so it's a moot point. Shit, some games can't even use more than 1-2 CPU cores or use SLI ffs...
I'm not sure did you understand that it is peer-to-peer streaming, so a game is streaming only from one server. I will happy if games can will rendering in several servers, but i suppose it is impossible for now
And of course if this already existing proprietary platform would really exist, you wouldn't need an ICO. This project just smells like just another scam ICO seasoned a random interesting topic.
Yes, we can do it without ICO, but it will be too slow, because we need a lot of investments in hardware, for marketing to attract users, for development this architecture. It is just another way to launch decentralization project rapidly.
